Biology
Dates of course
Sunday 6th - Wednesday 9th April 2025
Course description
Biology at Oxford is an exciting and rapidly developing subject area with relevance to addressing global challenges, from disease and poverty to biodiversity loss and climate change. Studying Biology at Oxford will provide you with new insights into the natural world, and equips you with skills to tackle these challenges.
The Oxford Biology course encourages a cross-disciplinary approach. The first year gives everyone a broad understanding of the subjects while the second and third years allow you to study a comprehensive range of topics, including aspects of animal, plant, cell, molecular, and ecological sciences. The option to continue onto a fourth year provides you with the opportunity to specialise into a particular area through a research project.
The UNIQ Biology course will give you an insight into what being an undergraduate biologist at Oxford is like. Each day has a theme reflecting the options on offer on the degree course, which is taught by the Department of Biology.
In the UNIQ Biology Course, you may expect to experience:
- lectures covering topics typically found in the course
- hands-on experience and activities relating to studying the natural world, such as animal, ecological, and conservation research
- workshops with partner organisations such as the Botanic Gardens and Natural History Museum
- lab-based practicals to provide insights into the molecular aspects of biology
- face-to-face experience of the tutorial system of Oxford, and what its like to study Biology in a college with a dedicated tutor
- talks on the wider course structure & fieldtrips, admissions process, career options in Biology and the Oxford interview
Additional requirements for this UNIQ course
Candidates are required to be studying Biology and either Chemistry, Physics or Mathematics to A-level, Advanced Higher, Higher Level in the IB or another equivalent.
